Thursday, April 24, 2008

Conversations with my kids

Ellen: Can we have foxtail and playstation?Me: It's Foxtel.Ellen: Yep, foxtail and playstation. When can we have them?Me: I don't know, they cost a lot of money. Why do you want them?Ellen: So I can find out if I like them. What is foxtail?Me: It's more telly channels.Ellen: For kids?Me: Some of them, yes.Ellen: Like in the hotels?Me: Yes, that's right.Ellen: How much is playstation?Me: About $300.Ellen: Hmm. We need to be rich. Are we rich?Me: No.Ellen: Can we have foxtail and playstation when we're rich?Me: I promise you can have foxtel and a playstation if we ever get rich.Ellen: How do you get to be rich?Me: If I knew that, we'd be rich.Ellen: What if you went to the circus and did the bestest trick ever and you had a hat and people put lots of money in it? That would work.Me: I'll get right to work on that.

I can remember saying much the same things about our family getting a Soda Stream when we were rich, when I was little. It just seemed straightforward to me that if you kept going to work to earn money, surely at some point you'd be rich?